Introduction to the Music of Mendelssohn
Author : Percy Marshall Young
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Percy Marshall Young
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 1400831628
During the 1830s and 1840s the remarkably versatile composer-pianist-organist-conductor Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy stood at the forefront of German and English musical life. Bringing together previously unpublished essays by historians and musicologists, reflections on Mendelssohn written by his contemporaries, the composer's own letters, and early critical reviews of his music, this volume explores various facets of Mendelssohn's music, his social and intellectual circles, and his career. The essays in Part I cover the nature of a Jewish identity in Mendelssohn's music (Leon Botstein); his relationship to the Berlin Singakademie (William A. Little); the role of his sister Fanny Hensel, herself a child prodigy and accomplished composer (Nancy Reich); Mendelssohn's compositional craft in the Italian Symphony and selected concert overtures (Claudio Spies); his oratorio Elijah (Martin Staehelin); his incidental music to Sophocles' Antigone (Michael P. Steinberg); his anthem "Why, O Lord, delay forever?" (David Brodbeck); and an unfinished piano sonata (R. Larry Todd). Part II presents little-known memoirs by such contemporaries as J. C. Lobe, A. B. Marx, Julius Schubring, C. E. Horsley, Max Mller, and Betty Pistor. Mendelssohn's letters are represented in Part III by his correspondence with Wilhelm von Boguslawski and Aloys Fuchs, here translated for the first time. Part IV contains late nineteenth-century critical reviews by Heinrich Heine, Franz Brendel, Friedrich Niecks, Otto Jahn, and Hans von Blow.
Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 2003-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195110432
An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor. Now, in the first major Mendelssohn biography to appear in decades, Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant.
Author : Percy Marshall Young
Publisher :
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780781296076
Bonded Leather binding
Author : John Michael Cooper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198167235
Since about 1970 there has been a veritable renaissance in scholarship and performances concerning the works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Fanny Hensel. The essays in this book, presenting the findings of three generations of members of the international community of Mendelssohn/Hensel scholars, constitute a compendium of cutting-edge research relating to these two important representatives of nineteenth-century musical culture.
Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 1983-04-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521246552
This book is a study and critical edition of Mendelssohn's composition exercise book from his early period of study with Carl Friedrich Zelter (1819-1821). The workbook illustrates in considerable detail the young musician's struggle to master the rules of part writing and principles of counterpoint. Much of Zelter's systematic teaching method is grounded in the eighteenth-century theoretical tradition of Berlin; not surprisingly, the exercises bear the stamp of the music of J. S. Bach, which heavily influenced such Berlin musicians as C. P. E. Bach, C. F. C. Fasch, Marpurg, Kirnberger, Zelter and Mendelssohn. There is little doubt that the historicist attitude of the mature Mendelssohn - as seen in his efforts to revive the works of Bach and Handel and in his propensity toward strict contrapuntal techniques in his own music - was conditioned by these studies with Zelter. The publication of the workbook sheds new light on the early development of one ofthe most important nineteenth-century composers who, though affected by the new wave of romanticism that swept over Europe, never lost his respect for the past. No less important, the manuscript includes several previously unpublished pieces which rank among Mendelssohn's earliest compositions.
Author : Mendelssohn/Young
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 2000
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Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521028899
This volume of ten essays presents the most recent trends in Mendelssohn research, covering three broad categories - reception history, historical and critical essays and case studies of particular compositions.
Author : Peter Mercer-Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2004-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521533423
This book surveys the life, work, and posthumous reception of nineteenth-century German-Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn.
Author : Béla Bartók
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release :
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457412189
This volume contains 31 pieces from The First Term at the Piano, For Children, 10 Easy Pieces and 7 Sketches. The informative foreword includes Bartók's specific instructions on wrist and finer action, articulations and syncopation. Each piece is prefaced by a brief introduction.